I put the videos up on YouTube under my Japanesehighlander channel.
Basically the Cubans forgot to send in scouts to find their targets. The Americans just picked off their infantry and halted theor tank attack.
Game over.
Solution? Don't run a huge amount of gear!
I mean does every Soviet tank force need the maximum amount of tanks for a squadron?
No!
I have a T-64 Regiment which has a total of 15 tanks.
Split that into a HQ, and 3 sections of 4 tanks
Which means it's a bit big but manageable.
My largest NATO tanks forces
🇬🇧: Chieftains 1 HQ, 3 sections of 4 tanks
Challenger 1 HQ 2 sections of 2 tanks
🇨🇦: Leopard 1 1HQ section of 2, 3 sections of 5 each. (Not necessarily historic but dang it, it's my collection)
🇩🇪: Leopard 1 an 1 HQ, a mixed bag of about 8. These are modeled as a Heavy Reccee force there is 1 Leopard 2A5,
🇳🇱 : a HQ and 2 sections of 3 and a Heavy Recce of 2 Leopard 1s
🇦🇺 : a HQ and 2 sections of 4
🇫🇷 : a HQ and a section of 2 AMX-10
🇧🇪: a single section of 2, these I brigade with the Dutch
ITS JUST A GAME!!!!!
Sure the bills are due, the kids need help with university tuitions, the rising cost of gas, food Yada Yada Yada
So with what little you have leftover funds you have for hobbies do you stress out over not being able to keep up with the rest of the Pact?!
NO!!
Go your own pace. Use what you have.
Case in point. Before I came across Team Yankee, I used different rules for the modern 1/72 kits and figures I had. I have tailed off buying and building any new kits as my focus has been on team Yankee.
Am I going to get rid of my 1/72 kits? Not sure yet.
Getting back to the Battlefront Minatures system. Do you need to max out the amount of Soviet tank units coming at you?
Not necessarily
Think in terms of what would actually happen in a war situation. Just looking at Russian losses in Afghanistan,Chechnya, and Ukraine. Battle attrition can chew through armour quite quickly.
Even looking at what happened to Soviet era armor in the Gulf War of 1991.
My own collection is quite a good size on the Warsaw Pact size. The Soviets I now have T-64 tank battalion, a mixed T-72, T-62 Battalion and a Motorized Rifle Battalion made up of BMP-1, BMP-2 with T-55 support.
I also have a company of BTR-60 mounted Motorized Rifles and a T-80 shock battalion.
My Polish force has a modest T-72 battalion, a modest Motorized Rifles in Bmp-1, BMP-2 and BTR-60 with T-55 support.
My East Germans are also modestly armed with Tanks, Motorized Rifles.
My Czechoslovakian force, same modestly armed.
Call for alarm? Not really, sure I'd like to add some OT-64 carriers and some artillery. But it will come.
So how does NATO stack up?
The US force I have specifically kept small because I find the Americans always get all the attention. However I do have a few American kits. So I've built a small cavalry based force of M1A1, M-60s, Bradley's a big HUMVEE force. No infantry, not much AA or artillery.
CANADA
Now I felt that I needed to have a full Canadian force. Meaning I have outfitted the Royal Canadian Dragoons. I have 2PPCLI in M113s with artillery and aa support.
FRANCE has a modest force of AMX-30 tanks, AMX-10 scout cars, infantry in armoured vehicles, and helicopter support
DENMARK has a modest Recce force
The NETHERLANDS has a modest armoured force with infantry support and artillery
The BELGIAN force is modest with a recce tank force
NORWAY slowly getting added
The BRITISH is probably one of the best forces I have for NATO as they have it all. Armor, Infantry, Artillery, Recce, Anti-aircraft, Air support!
My ANZAC force is modest but Armoured Infantry and Armor.
Eventually I'll boost up my NATO forces, but hey, IT'S A HOBBY. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE FUN NOT STESSFUL
Even when I don't have all the gear I'd like, I add what I have from WW2, which isn't bad.
The first attack the Warsaw Pact put down drove back the British infantry. RA support was extremely ineffective due to the Soviets ability to jamm radar and radio communications to the batteries.
The first group of Polish troops advanced by BTR-50 who then departed to rejoin their Naval infantry brigade.
A further Polish Motorized Rifles Battalion in Bmps arrived
The British continued to hold on chewing up everything the Warsaw Pact force threw at them
Pictures to follow
A final game for 2023. Iranian attack on Iraqis
As part of their invasion of North America, a Soviet Motor Rifle division is pushing towards Edmonton and Red Deer
Soviet T-72 Regiment
BMP-1 company
The Commonwealth brigade of Canadian and British troops will attempt to block them
In what should sound like a battle a hundred years earlier, the Cold War has swept into North America.
Soviet forces have charged through British Columbia and are intent on charging down into Montana.
As Fort MacLeod is a major transport hub, the allies have decided to make a stand.
Canadian Forces are made up of Alberta Militia area troops supported by the British from BATUS and West Germans in their training areas.
The US has also sent up a cavalry force to try and stop the Soviet advance.
Battle to follow
Alberta Militia District
The Calgary Highlanders: Infantry in bush caps (Australians) with elements of the King's Own Calgary Regiment in M113s
South Alberta Light Horse: Jeeps with TOWs
20th Regiment RCA: towed 105mm guns
20th Independent Field Battery RCA: mortars
For the South Alberta's, Fort MacLeod is just outside theor HQ of Lethbridge as are the independent gunners.
SOVIETS
VDV Weapons platoon
Air Assault Regiment
Mixed Tank Regiment
T-72, T-62, T-64, T-80,
BMP-3 Scout
